{"id":43929,"date":"2023-03-19T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43929"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:25:33","slug":"understanding-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43929","title":{"rendered":"Understanding The System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-43930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Seven_Wolves_and_a_Lamb-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Wolves and a Lamb\" width=\"860\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Seven_Wolves_and_a_Lamb-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Seven_Wolves_and_a_Lamb.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banks will make sure we remain indebted. Pharmaceutical companies will make sure we stay sick. The gun manufacturers will keep us at permanent war. Media will make sure we don&#8217;t know the truth. Governments will make sure to create a &#8220;legal environment&#8221; for all possible abuses. One day, when the people will understand these things, they will understand everything, if it\u2019s not too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks will make sure we remain indebted. Pharmaceutical companies will make sure we stay sick. The gun manufacturers will keep us at permanent war. Media will make sure we don&#8217;t know the truth. Governments will make sure to create a &#8220;legal environment&#8221; for all possible abuses. One day, when the people will understand these things, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Understanding The System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43931,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929\/revisions\/43931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}